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New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

Like the town hall tower, it dominates for miles around, and is also in a monumental Baroque style. The pond is now replaced be the uncompromisingly modern Mercury Theatre, built in 1972.

The Town Hall on the left has a meat market on the ground floor, and butchers have come out to pose for the photograph.

Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture.

Helmsley is considered to be one of the area's more attractive market towns. This is the Market Square, with All Saints' Church and the monument to Lord Feversham.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

An easier way to get from one part of town to the other would be to take the cable car. It was opened in 1892, when a ticket up or down cost 1d (one old penny).

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century Harbour Office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships captains.

Here we see the Albert Edward Dock basin, looking from the entrance towards the town. Amongst the cargo which was being unloaded here in our picture would have been timber, flax and china clay.

The 'Mother and Child' sculpture, behind the children, now forms part of Basildon's logo, such has been the extent to which people associate it with the town.

The town pillory stood in this Market Place, and a pleasure fair was also held here.

The town grew during the 1840s with the sinking of the first coal mine in the locality.

The market town of Haltwhistle straddles the present-day A69 a few miles from the border with Cumbria.

Many of the students who trained here were later employed in the glass industry for which the town is so well known.

Touring caravan sites are now popular, and several are clustered in this northern area of town.

Godalming was initially an industrial town, noted for its cloth making. On the left of the cobbled High Street, notably devoid of any traffic, is Edward's Drug Store, which later passed to Boots.

The action-packed scene that is a town street in Edwardian days, with plenty of people going about their business; the only traffic is horse-drawn vehicles.

The house with the porch is one of the oldest in town. Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

St Mary's Church, the oldest in the town, is Norman in origin, and probably stands on the site of an earlier Saxon building.

This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street. In the centre is the former town hall, later a masonic hall, which dates from 1775.

This is a typical atmospheric Georgian hotel on the steep hill up through the town.

Here we see the town bridge in Maidenhead with an elegant steamer - the 'Empress of India' - tied up in the foreground.

There were around 160 shops in the town centre by this time, and the Development Corporation had turned their attention to providing Basildon with a health centre, and also police, fire and ambulance stations

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.